When will it be time for the BBC news to take down the 'war on gaza' tab?

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The peace fire seems on the whole to be holding and therefore there is limited news from this region so why don't the BBC pull any articles on the middle east into the main site of at least into a middle East section?

There are many conflicts around the world that (Sudan, Somalia etc) that deserve attention yet still the BBC have a whole section up for war ended by a ceasefire? It has been shown there was bias within the BBC which is currently suffering a lot of aspirational damage so surely it could help itself by having equal coverage of conflicts around the world apart from focussing one that involves Israelis and Jews? Anti semitism has been well documented in this country and I think one way to reduce e it is to look at areas where there is an over focus on one particular conflict showing an anti Israel agenda.

The Guardian have stopped their exclusive sub heading so why can't the BBC follow?

I find Channel 4 news to be much better in this respect. They regularly do reports on other stuff going on around the world. The BBC is too narrowly focused IMO.

Legally they should have @Twiglets1 not just morally. The idf’s actions are in breach of the Geneva convention,
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Jesus wept. That’s not the point.

You don’t get to decide who should or shouldn’t be protected by international law. Else the world will descend into chaos.

No of course I don't. No one is asking me but equally not many people seem very concerned about 2 more terrorists being killed. Apart from a couple of people on MN that seem to have unlimited amounts of faux outrage about anything connected to the IDF or Israel government behaving badly.

Only the IDF have said they were terrorists. We don’t know if they were or weren’t. However, from sky news:

Between 2018 and 2022, the last years for which data are available, there were 219 court cases launched into allegations of Palestinians being killed, illegally, by Israeli soldiers on the West Bank.
Of these, 112 were deemed to be unworthy of investigation. Of the remaining 107, it was decided that 106 did not merit an indictment.
In the single case where a soldier was indicted, he was convicted of killing a Palestinian after opening fire at the scene of a traffic accident. His punishment was three months of community service.

Doesn’t look likely that there will be any reprisals. What a suprise.

Faux outrage? If someone disagrees with your viewpoint then they must be faking it?

And as for no one caring for those men, I don’t get your argument. You seem to be saying that as no one cares about them, no one should? So what? Perhaps the people who do care about them are dead? I don’t understand your argument at all. Can you elaborate?

The tabs for Israel- Gaza war are most likely still there because people do care. I imagine news organisations will be responding to the number clicks and demand for news on the region.

The devastation in the region and its impact on the displaced Gazan population is, in my opinion, under-reported. We are coming up to winter and people are living in makeshift tents. Children are seen playing amongst rubble. We need to keep this in the news and we need reporters to be allowed in.

There is so much work to be done - and this is an ongoing consequence of the war. It needs to be reported on and it makes sense to collate news under one section.

What do you keep calling it a ‘peace fire’??!

Do you think Gaza is the only place in the world where there is suffering?

@SharonEllis
Of course there are awful things happening in other regions of the world, and people can readily search for those. They are not hidden. The BBC has a world page that’s easily found.

Again, news organisations are likely responding to the interest of their users. Why do some people want to make it more difficult for all those interested in the future of Gaza to get easily accessible updates?

What kind of argument is that? It’s almost as if you want us to look away from the death and destruction.

Do you think that now there is a fragile peace, the Gazans are now living it up? The rubble has been magically cleared, children’s limbs magically restored, the economy is booming?

Now is the most important time to look at Gaza because what happens now determines the future and the likelihood of this happening again.

No point disabling Hamas now if another extreme group pops up again in 20 years which will most certainly happen if the Palestinians are subject to the same conditions that they have been over the last decades.

The international community needs to ensure that doesn’t happen.

Like I said, now is the most important time to focus on Gaza.

Not only the IDF saying they were terrorists.

The deceased, identified by Palestinian media as 26-year-old Mahmoud Qassem Abdallah and 37-year-old Youssef Asasa, were wanted by Israel on suspicion of involvement in bombing and shooting attacks against troops. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group confirmed Friday that the two were members of its military wing.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/border-cops-suspected-of-killing-2-terror-suspects-who-surrendered-in-jenin-we-feared-theyd-harm-us/

And so be it.

Just because the "Hamas health ministry" don't distinguish between combatants and civilians, I think it's important that the rest of us do make the distinction.

Yes - the IDF still should have arrested the terrorists seeing as they had their hands up.

But also, no one's crying over 2 dead terrorists.

As this thread is about the BBC, I will also make the point that the BBC website also refers to these 2 men killed as "Palestinians" rather than terrorists.

As a matter of policy, they do not use the word "terrorist" to describe anyone.

Those on the pro Israel side are sometimes accused of thinking all Palestinians are Hamas or other terrorists (of course we don't).

But this muddying of the water doesn't help. Media sites like the BBC are doing the civilians in Gaza a disservice by lumping ordinary Palestinians in together with terrorists who are involved in bombing and shooting attacks.

But also, no one's crying over 2 dead terrorists.

I find these kind of comments extremely inhumane. And it makes me wonder where as a society we are heading.

Israeli jets are continuing to attack, doesn't seem overly peaceful in Gaza.

Hopefully to a place where as a society we do not tolerate terrorism or indulge terrorists. Sadly we seem a long way from that, with open support on our streets for Hamas and worse a lot of weasel words about justified resistance.

There’s always going to be terrorism Sharon. You are never going to know in what form it’s going to present itself.

Oh I’m wrong! You are crying over dead terrorists.

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This!

We know why there’s an obsession w Gaza above all other conflicts (barring Ukraine, but where are the weekly marches against Putin’s regime?) Haven’t seen many ‘death to the Russian army’ chants.

Ukraine conflict: Protests held around UK in support of Ukraine

A quick google will let you know.

I don't need to google, I have been on many of them. The posters point was about protests against Putin. The situations are not in any way comparable as Ukraine did not instigate Russia's illegal invasion, whereas Hamas declared war on Israel prompting Israel's legitimate response.